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Dragonwater Ginger Root Herbal Tea
Review

A Sweet and Very Spicy Herbal Tea

Summary : Um...if you like sweet things, REALLY sweet
things, then this tea from the Dragonwater
Tea Company has your name all over it. The wild ginger root in this
tea REALLY packs one heck of a punch on the taste buds, and is a surprisingly
spicy too!

Review : Well, it's late and I'm having a difficult
time getting to sleep...not even tired actually. I was tempted to reach
for the old standby, a chamomile
tea of one kind or another, which usually helps in chilling me down.
But I wasn't up for a chamomile tea tonight, if only because I think
I'm too wound up for it to actually do me any good.

And so, being all wound up with nowhere to go, I suddenly felt experimental.
And right there on my kitchen counter was a forgotten about tea sampler
from the Dragonwater
Tea Company called Ginger Root, a herbal tea. Feeling guilty for
having ignored this tea for months on end, I figured it was time to clean
up my kitchen counter and give this tea a try.

The Ginger Root Tea from
Dragonwater Tea Company (now out of business) contains the following ingredients : Cut and sifted wildcrafted Ginger
Root.

The aroma of this tea...what's there to say? POWERFUL, how's that? So
powerful, in fact, that you risk sinus damage if you do what I did and
stick your nose inside the bag! And yes, the aroma is exactly what you
would expect ginger root to smell like...always a happy sign in a herbal
tea that contains nothing but ginger root!

The "leaves" of this tea, if you want to call the cut-up ginger
root tea leaves, are huge. You could easily use them as spit-balls if
you so decided. And should you decide to freeze the cut-up ginger root,
you could probably throw these things quite the distance and hurt someone
with it too.

Once brewed, the color of this tea is very surprising. It's a "murky
tea," in that you can barely see through it once brewed. Yet it's
very, very pale in color...sort of a very light brown. Truth be told,
the color of the tea, due to it's "murkiness" that seems to
vary from one part of the cup to another, is kind of weird, and could
be a put-off if you are wary or turbid teas.

But that would be a shame to be put off by this teas color, as you would
miss one of the spicier and sweeter teas you'll ever have. Yes, this
tea is both spicy and sweet, although I noticed that the sweet part,
which hits you on your first sip, soon gives way to a very, very potent
spicy tingling that takes over your tongue.

Of course, this is ginger root...and ginger is spicy. So I shouldn't
have been surrpised by the spice level of this tea. Truthfully, this
tea is so spicy it actually rivals the "hot" spice levels of
many oriental restaurants (and tastes better than many too!).

Overall, if you need a tea to wake you up, or are a spice-a-holic like
I am, or like sweet and really spicy things, then this tea from the Dragonwater
Tea Company has your name on it. And oh, by the way, watch out for
that lingering after-taste...the spicy tingling on your tongue won't
go away anytime soon!

Recommendation : Yes. If you like spicy teas, you'll
almost certainly enjoy this tea. Just be forewarned, this tea is REALLY
spicy. It just doesn't have a "little kick," it has a "LOT
of kick."

Brewing Instructions : Use 2 teaspoons of
leaves...the "leave" are huge.. Pour 1 cup (5.5 ounces,
but 6 works quite nicely) boiling water over the leaves. Let
the tea brew for 5-10 minutes. I brewed the tea for 8 minutes
for this review.